April Lyrics

Lyric discussion by allviolet 

Cover art for April lyrics by PJ Harvey

my favorite from the new album. i always thought of her as referring to the month rather than a person. and i immediately thought of the line "april is the cruellest month" from TS Eliot's "The Waste Land" when i first heard it, which goes along with the feeling about april here...

This is a great song. I love the lyrics. I think allviolet may be correct about the reference of April being the cruelest month. I think that April rain is representing a break up.

At the start the speaker was so careful to make the relationship work: (April...all that careful stepping, and now your rain.)

The speaker in the song is wondering how he or she could not have seen this coming, and wasn't ready for it when it happened (how could I have worn in-appropiate clothing).

The days, weeks and months after a break up can be disheartening...